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He, a stranger here, seemed to be showing the others the way, a guide in his own realm. Melissa had heard that the strong scent of the kyphi might prove injurious to Diodoros, and her one thought now was the desire that Galenus might soon approach his couch.
"Galenus sent word that he would visit the sick early to-day; but he is not here yet. He is an old man, and in Rome, they say, it is the custom to sleep late." He was interrupted by a stir in the long hall, which broke in on the silence, no one knew from whence; and immediately after, officious hands threw open the great double doors with a loud noise.
But there was nothing nothing! Heart, lungs, liver, all in their right place. And then, Galenus What I like is bad for me, what I loathe is wholesome. And again and again the same foolish question, 'Do you wish to escape an early death? And all with an air as though Death were a slave at his command He can, no doubt, do more than others, and has preserved his own life I know not how long.
I would rather endure the worst than this dreadful anxiety." So Andreas acknowledged that the youth was in a bad way, but that Ptolemaeus, himself well-skilled, hoped to cure him if his greater colleague Galenus would aid him. "And it is to secure his assistance, then," Melissa went on, "that the leech would have him carried to the Serapeum?" "Yes, my child.
But just now I saw him near, and I thought I could see that he was suffering great pain. Why, we pity a brute creature when it is in anguish. He is still so young, and it must be so hard to die!" Galenus nodded approvingly, and replied: "I thank you, in the name of my imperial patient. Well, send me your portrait; but let it be soon, for I embark before sunset. I shall like to remember you.
The old woman assured her, as they walked on, that Diodoros had always been born to good luck; and it was clear that this had never been truer than now, when Galenus had come in the nick of time to restore him to life and health, and when he had won such a bride as Melissa.
But when at last the ten fine horses which drew it had gone past Melissa, and the top of the vehicle became visible, the color mounted to her cheeks, for on the corners of the front she recognized the figures of AEsculapius and Minerva, which, if the mosaic-worker were right, distinguished the chariot of Galenus.
The disappointment made him irritable and listless, when Galenus had succeeded in curing me so far that I was able to throw away my Crutch; and my limp at least so they tell me is hardly perceptible." "Not at all, most certainly not at all," Melissa sympathetically assured him.
This perfume brings dreams, but no less surely induces fever. Have you no other room at hand where the air is purer?" An eager "Yes," in many voices was the reply; and Diodoros was forthwith transferred into a small cubicle adjoining. While he was being moved, Galenus went from bed to bed, questioning the chief physician and the patients.
He is mending, and the greatest of thy ministers, O Asklepios, says he will recover, so it must be true. Yet without thee even the skill of Galenus is of little avail; wherefore I beseech you both, Heal Diodoros, whom I love! But I would fain entreat you for another. You will wonder, perhaps for it is Bassianus Antoninus, whom they call Caracalla and Caesar.
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